Friday, 23 August 2013

The chains remain where the Scottish masons hung on to carve the rock back in 1919.
It seems sad to desecrate it, but when we know better we do better.My final post is about the ancient pictographs.
Dear Flora adored him, and tried to contact him through seances. They say she was successful!

Flora's ashes were dumped in the lake, below the sign. It is a deep lake, with little turnover, hopefully no one has swum through her ashes, as legend tells one such incident in Muskoka.

Back in 1919, now a public domain photoFlora MacDonald Denison (owner of the property) is under the "P" in "amplitude". Her son Merrill Denison is under "know".

There are rules about rock climbing, as it is illegal without being part of a climbing group.Rock climbingat Bon Echo (Alpine Club of Canada Toronto Section)
Also, as in many parks, the flora and fauna depend upon the natural formations and habitat. It seems a shame to destroy it either way, but people do climb, paint, chop things down.

We've been complaining about this on-line: cottage country is not the same, what with the loud noise, bonfires, fireworks, partying, disrespect for neighbours and nature, not to mention those who use the lakes as Nascar tracks.

One of the old, dead cedars in the rock was dated, our NHE interpreter told us. They grow slowly, with horrible conditions!

Bon Echo features several lakes, including part of Mazinaw Lake, the second-deepest lake in Ontario. The southeastern shore of Mazinaw Lake features the massive 100 m (330 ft) high Mazinaw Rock, an escarpment rising out of the water, adorned with many nativepictographs. The unofficial mascot of Bon Echo Park is the Ojibwetrickster figure andculture hero, Nanabush, who is among the 260 plus pictographs found in the area.Pictographs are often confused with petroglyphs, which are rock carvings rather than the rock paintings found on Mazinaw.

2 comments:

Hari OMHave really enjoyed touring this park with you Jenn! Glad you put the period photo in ... simply because the first one from the present gives no idea of the scale - I got quite the surprise! Thanks for sharing! YAM xx